The always-fascinating Letters of Note dug up a real find today: a rejection letter sent by Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels back in 1976, during the show’s first season. The letter’s addressed to Mr. Currier (no, that’s a dog), and Michaels, in an uncharacteristically compassionate way, explains why the man’s putrid, horrid, unsolicited writing has been rebuffed. I may be editorializing a bit. To soften the blow, however, Michaels adds a suggestion for how to get on his and the staff’s good side. HINT: it involves nudity. Makes perfect sense, too: comedy writers are known for their toned physique. Right, Sexy Chevy Chase?

I always like Artie Lange’s story of when he met Lorne Michaels, basically he told Artie that in no way are you ever going to be a cast member on this show but will you please be the male lead in Superstar.

@dRail yeah Lorne has always struck me as not being particularly aware of how to produce comedy, the fact that he fires and bans from SNL anyone who improvises (despite the material often being incredibly lazily written) is one example (Both Damien Waynes and Adrian Brody were banned from SNL for improving.)